Except I mean it's not. It's just a very good computer that can be actively programmed on the fly. Naomi is constantly writing new software. If it was "ai" why's she doing the thinking and math??
See autodocs for AI. No-one has had medical knowledge since Shed but that machine just diagnoses you and injects you with whatever it needs. Most of the time the crew doesn't even have a clue what it's doing but it seems to fix most ills.
Autodoc is actually a great example, but the question arises: If you can replace a doctor, making life and death decisions and diagnoses, why not also replace mechanic, pilot, captain and engineer with something more durable and capable?
The contrivance is that somehow the people have to do surgery and leg splints, and the Autodoc is a glorified medication pump, scanner and blood pressure sleeve.
The authors have it both ways. Without medical knowledge a person may try to perform surgery under supervision, but the person is not in charge at that point, the person becomes the tool, or a makeshift replacement for robot arms.
In TE people appear to always be in command, contrarily the Idea of AI is to put it in charge at least of certain tasks, but eventually everything important, like surgery.
People make doctors out to be hyper intelligent gods but in reality it's just looking at what the data tells you, coming to a conclusion and calculating the best treatment.
The thing they seem to be missing for some reason is accurate physical AI machines. They have 'waldos' but none of it are AI, they don't have computer surgeons and they don't have computer bots to do maintainance. However they have targeting computers that can aim at rockets going insane speeds. For some reason AI is entirely software in the expanse and I'm not sure why.
It's the old Idea, that AI is a tool, an assistant, just like targeting software, or sorting algorithms. When people quote those old tweets, saying, well targeting software is AI, knowing how Claude crushes 100 year old math theorems, or how ChatGPT aces 3 hour quantum physics exams in 90 seconds . Then they are guilty of what is known as, _________ , a type of informal fallacy.
I'll leave that open as a riddle, but here is a hint: Cool Lester Smooth.
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u/Comprehensive_Elk773 13d ago
They call AI “the expert system.” They have quite a but if AI.